Re: font randomly gets blocky

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 2 Feb 2004, Andrew McCready wrote:
> I'm using dia v0.91 and I've read
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/fonts.html
>
> However, I've created a simple flowchart with a few
> elipses and labels. Normally, the font looks fine
> (where fine == nice,clean freetype), but once in a 
> while, the labels for objects that aren't being edited
> will suddenly go blocky (as if switching to a bitmap
> font). Selecting the object (either with the mouse or
> with ctrl-a) will cause the font to switch back.
>
> Any idea what is causing this?

We know that it started after switching to Pango (Gtk2), but apart from
that it's fairly mysterious.  I suspect an alpha channel being converted
from 8 bit to 1 bit, but have found nothing to prove it yet.

-Lars

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